Current clinical applications of in vivo gene therapy with AAVs

JR Mendell, SA Al-Zaidy, LR Rodino-Klapac… - Molecular Therapy, 2021 - cell.com
Hereditary diseases are caused by mutations in genes, and more than 7,000 rare diseases
affect over 30 million Americans. For more than 30 years, hundreds of researchers have …

Clinical challenges and future therapeutic approaches for neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis

SE Mole, G Anderson, HA Band, SF Berkovic… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Treatment of the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses, also known as Batten disease, is at the start
of a new era because of diagnostic and therapeutic advances relevant to this group of …

Study of intraventricular cerliponase alfa for CLN2 disease

A Schulz, T Ajayi, N Specchio… - … England Journal of …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Recombinant human tripeptidyl peptidase 1 (cerliponase alfa) is an enzyme-
replacement therapy that has been developed to treat neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2 …

Disease characteristics and progression in patients with late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2 (CLN2) disease: an observational cohort study

M Nickel, A Simonati, D Jacoby, S Lezius… - The Lancet Child & …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2 (CLN2) disease,
characterised by rapid psychomotor decline and epilepsy, is caused by deficiency of the …

Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis: the multifaceted approach to the clinical issues, an overview

A Simonati, RE Williams - Frontiers in neurology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The main aim of this review is to summarize the current state-of-art in the field of childhood
Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (NCL), a group of rare neurodegenerative disorders. These …

Gene therapy for neurodegenerative diseases: slowing down the ticking clock

R Martier, P Konstantinova - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Gene therapy is an emerging and powerful therapeutic tool to deliver functional genetic
material to cells in order to correct a defective gene. During the past decades, several …

Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis: potential for targeted therapy

N Specchio, A Ferretti, M Trivisano, N Pietrafusa… - Drugs, 2021 - Springer
Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCLs) is a group of inherited neurodegenerative lysosomal
storage diseases that together represent the most common cause of dementia in children …

Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses

DA Nita, SE Mole, BA Minassian - Epileptic Disorders, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL) are neurodegenerative conditions that associate
cognitive decline, progressive cerebellar atrophy, retinopathy, and myoclonic epilepsy. NCL …

[HTML][HTML] Management strategies for CLN2 disease

RE Williams, HR Adams, M Blohm, JL Cohen-Pfeffer… - Pediatric …, 2017 - Elsevier
CLN2 disease (neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2) is a rare, autosomal recessive,
pediatric-onset, rapidly progressive neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorder caused …

[HTML][HTML] Pathomechanisms in the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses

HR Nelvagal, J Lange, K Takahashi… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs) are a group of inherited neurodegenerative
lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs), traditionally grouped together based on shared clinical …